The glow is fast fading...

Senator Menedez is not happy with language he discovered in the spending bill that changes the United States policy towards Cuba;


The Menendez rebellion was a jolt of political reality
for Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Obama, signaling
that the solidarity of the stimulus debate is fading as Democratic
lawmakers are starting to read the fine print of the bills they will
wrestle with in the coming weeks and months, and not always liking what
they see..

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Menendez knew that his hard-line approach to Cuba was a minority
view within his party, and that it was at odds with Obama’s approach.
But he did not expect to discover a significant policy change embedded
in the text on an appropriations bill. His policy aides came across the
language when the legislation was posted on a congressional Web site.


“The process by which these changes have been forced upon this body
is so deeply offensive to me, and so deeply undemocratic, that it puts
the omnibus appropriations package in jeopardy, in spite of all the
other tremendously important funding that this bill would provide,” the
enraged son of Cuban immigrants said last week on the Senate floor.
Menendez even slapped a hold on a pair of Obama nominees to draw
attention to the issue.


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